Friday, January 30, 2015

Robert Dugoni’s “My Sister’s Grave”

Tracy
Crosswhite is Seattle’s first female homicide detective. Her hometown, Cedar
Grove, Washington, is about two hours west. There’s no one left for her in
Cedar Grove; her parents are dead, and her only sibling, a younger sister named
Sarah, disappeared when she was 18. Her body was never found; but a prison
felon, who had just been released for rape of a minor, was arrested and
convicted.

Something
was wrong, though, and Tracy knew it. Her pursuit what actually happened to
Sarah destroyed her marriage. And then 20 years after Tracy disappeared, her
body is found. And what’s clear is that the man convicted for her death couldn’t
have done it.

Tracy
is determined to learn the truth, whatever the cost. And there are people who
prefer she do no such thing.

My
Sister’s Grave
is writer Robert Dugoni’s ninth
novel and the first in what is planned as a Tracy Crosswhite series. And he’s a
popular writer – My Sister’s Grave has
more than 5,000 reviews on Amazon.

Robert Dugoni

His
heroine is unusual – over 40 years old, attractive, and tough. She makes
mistakes. She sometimes offends people, and especially her boss’s boss. But she’s
also relentless, and now she’s coming close to finding the truth, even if it
means putting her own life at risk. She runs into a childhood friend who’s
moved back to Cedar Grove from Boston, leaving behind a successful law practice
and a failed marriage. He becomes Tracy’s ally, and her love interest.

Dugoni
skillfully builds the tension, and the story’s crisis begins to happen sooner
than expected. He heightens the tension to the point where the reader is
tempted to turn to the last page to see if Tracy will survive or not (I did not
succumb to the temptation) (but I thought about it).

My Sister’s Grave is part
mystery, part police procedural, part legal thriller – all combined into an extremely
satisfying story.

2 comments:

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your book reviews! You've sent me to some great reads - and this one will be added to the list. Did you recommend "Elizabeth Is Missing?" Wow, was that helpful to me, as well as being a great 'mystery' read. !st person narrator - an 80 year old woman with dementia. Really helpful in understanding my own mom's struggles. If you didn't review it, I encourage you to try it.

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